Nagoba is the serpent-god who serves as the Persa Pen, the great clan-god, of the Mesram (Raj Gond) clan and specifically its Boi Gutta lineage. Identified with the cosmic serpent Shesha, he is the object of one of the most important Gond festivals, the Nagoba Jatara held each winter at his shrine in Keslapur, Adilabad district. The rites, documented in detail by the anthropologist Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, open with the Mesram priests fetching water and pots from the Godavari; the god's worship is bound to the clan's identity and its assembly, and Fürer-Haimendorf himself helped institutionalise the accompanying durbar in the 1940s. As a specifically named clan-deity Nagoba individuates the generic Persa Pen cult already represented in the corpus.